On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Robert Newson wrote:
> Views are also sharded.
>
> It's common for a node to host multiple shards of the same database,
> so we already have this 'concurrent writes' notion, if I've
> interpreted it correctly.
>
>
Well my question are more related why using a mapping ? And how to keep the
backup of one database easy for a user. Possibly without relying on a
mapping stored aside.
Other question is why bigcouch choose that design vs the one I propose.
@Hans since db are shared and views are done / db ,views indexations are
also concurrent.
- benoît
> On 13 December 2012 16:36, Hans J Schroeder wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 13, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Benoit Chesneau
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> This morning I was back reading a lot of fundamentals about databases
> and
> >> such and was asking myself how we could increase the number of
> concurrent
> >> writes.
> >>
> >> These days the theory is that it will be solved by sharding the
> databases
> >> in multiples database files and merging results of the queries. Since
> the
> >> databases will be shareded then the writes on the same db will be
> >> concurrents. A map of the shards willl be kept aside. All of this
> thanks to
> >> the introduction of bigcouch.
> >>
> >> The question I have is why don't we already do that? Ie balancing datas
> on
> >> different files on one db? for example the db folder could be
> >>
> >> database/XY.couch
> >>
> >> where XY are the first letters of an id or content hash or any
> consistent
> >> hashing method.
> >>
> >> I am currently asking myself such question because I am wondering how
> will
> >> the backup works when couchdb will be used as a single node. How to
> backup
> >> only one db without having to query for the mapping and such? How to
> keep
> >> it it simple.
> >>
> >> Related to that why did bigcouch used that design? Why mapping shards
> in a
> >> db database instead of having some kind of natural balancing on the fs
> and
> >> having a consistent hashing algorithm used to balance on different
> >> machines/vms as well ?
> >>
> >>
> >> - benoît
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > That's like "horizontal partitioning" in conventional databases and I
> think its a great idea. Having a writer process for each partition will
> make it scale.
> >
> > Does Bigcouch have anything for the view files too or are they just
> sharding the backing files?
> >
> > - Hans
>